Relevant Mobile Advertising FAQs

Verizon has acquired Yahoo and combined it with AOL to form a new company named Oath. Oath consists of over 50 digital and mobile brands globally, including HuffPost, Yahoo News, Yahoo Sports, Tumblr, and AOL as well as advertising platforms such as ONE by AOL, BrightRoll, and Gemini.

The Relevant Mobile Advertising program helps make marketing you see more personalized and useful to you across the devices and services you use. This program shares information with Oath (formed by the combination of AOL and Yahoo).

The Relevant Mobile Advertising program uses your postal and email addresses; certain information about your Verizon Wireless products and services (such as device type; and demographic and interest categories you provide or that we get from other companies such as your gender, age range, and interests (i.e. sports fan, frequent diner, or pet owner). This information may be combined with information collected by Oath advertising services from devices you use to access Oath services and visit third-party websites and apps that include Oath advertising services (such as web browsing, app usage, and location), as well as information that we obtain from third-party partners and advertisers. This information is described in the Oath and Yahoo privacy policies.

The advertising program uses online and device identifiers including browser cookies, advertising IDs from Apple and Google, and one created by Verizon, known as a Unique Identifier Header or UIDH. Unless you opt out of the Relevant Mobile Advertising program (and have not opted in to the separate Verizon Selects program), a UIDH is included in the address information of Internet requests going to Verizon companies (including Oath) and to a small number of partners to help deliver services unrelated to advertising. In addition, with your opt-in consent, for example when you opt in to the Verizon Selects program, the UIDH may be shared with partners who provide advertising services. Partners that receive the UIDH are authorized to use the UIDH only as part of the Verizon and Oath services and not for their own separate uses. More information about the UIDH can be found here.

We do not share information that identifies you personally outside of Verizon as part of this program other than with vendors and partners who do work for us. We require that these vendors and partners protect the information and use it only for the services they are providing us.

Devices you have on your Verizon Wireless account and those you use to log in to My Verizon will receive ads. In addition, you may receive advertising on devices you use to connect directly to Oath sites and services, or on third-party sites where Oath provides advertising services. If you share your mobile hotspot with others, ads relevant to you may also appear on other connected devices.

Information Verizon Wireless has about the location of your mobile device is not used in the program. Oath brands offer services and advertising technologies that collect location information which, along with any location information provided by advertisers themselves, may be used by Oath. More information can be found in the Oath and Yahoo privacy policies.

Yes, you can notify us that you do not want us to use your Verizon Wireless customer information by visiting www.vzw.com/myprivacy or by calling (866) 211-0874. If you have an account with multiple lines, you must indicate your privacy choices with respect to each individual line. If you opt-out of Relevant Mobile Advertising and you have not joined Verizon Selects, Verizon will stop including a UIDH in traffic coming from your device. The UIDH will still appear for a short period of time after you opt-out of the Relevant Mobile Advertising program. If you are a member of Verizon Selects, the UIDH will still be present even if you opt-out of Relevant Mobile Advertising. More information about the UIDH is available here.

You have choices about how Oath uses your information for advertising purposes. You can opt-out of receiving interest-based ads when you browse the web by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance's consumer choice page and selecting "AOL Advertising," "BrightRoll" and "Yahoo, Inc." This opt-out choice will apply only to the browser you are using when you opt-out, so if you are using multiple browsers or devices, you will need to repeat this process on each. Please note that blocking or deleting cookies in your browser may cancel your choice to opt-out.

No, using browser controls such as clearing cookies on your devices or clearing your browser history is not an effective way to opt-out of the Verizon and Oath advertising services. Instead, if you want to opt-out, you should take the steps outlined above in #8 and #9.

Verizon Wireless will stop including a UIDH after you opt-out of the Relevant Mobile Advertising program or activate a line that is ineligible. (Government and enterprise lines are examples of ineligible lines.) The UIDH will still appear for a short period of time after you opt-out or activate an ineligible line. If you choose to participate in the Verizon Selects program, the UIDH will be present even if you have opted-out of the Relevant Mobile Advertising program.

Yes, you can change your privacy choices at any time. When you opt-out, Verizon Wireless data will no longer be combined with Oath advertising information and Verizon Wireless data will be removed by Oath advertising services from the information it uses to provide advertising to you. Please note that: (1) this is not applicable if you remain opted-in to the Verizon Selects program, and (2) information collected prior to the date of your opt-out may be used in combination with others' information for analytics and modeling purposes.

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